Bell Ringer


Practice your sentence variety! Refresh your memory on participial phrases. Write a sentence that you might end up using in your description of your setting using a participial phrase. You can use it as an opener, closer, or s/v split.

Put your sentence on the discussion board.

Surrounded by an eclectic mix of modern art galleries, fashionable boutiques, and forgotten storefronts with boarded windows and dusty memorabilia, the restaurant stands as an icon of the past, reminding patrons that this part of town once buzzed with energy and excitement.

Discussion: Setting

  • Read passage from Of Mice and Men
  • Use highlighters to find DICTION, IMAGERY, and DETAILS.
  • In the graphic organizer, brainstorm the tone of the passage. Give text evidence and commentary for diction, imagery, and details.
  • Look at the web you created to brainstorm for descriptive writing of your place. Paying close attention to your own diction, imagery, and details, write your own descriptive passage rough draft.

Teacher Sample

Mini-Lesson: Analyzing a Character

Character Autopsy! Grab a group, a piece of butcher paper, and a handout!

Choose a character to analyze from Of Mice and Men. (George, Lennie, Slim, Curley's wife, Curley, Candy, Crooks, Carlson)


Homework

Write your first draft of your setting description! We will peer review these next time!